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The countdown of the Zwick Science Award 2014 is now over. We finally received more than 100 papers from 15 countries.

Thank you all for participating!

In the next weeks we will compile a shortlist and pass it to our judges for the final assessment. Hopefully by end of February we can inform the winners and invite them for our Academia Day on the 2nd of June at the ETH Zürich.

If you have not participated in the Zwick Science Award 2014, the competition is now open for 2015.

Take the opportunity to submit your scientific papers related to materials testing in the Zwick Science Award 2014. No matter which machine you are using or if you have designed your own test equipment, it is worth to participate.

A prize money of 8.000€ and an invitation to the ETH Zürich on the 2nd of June 2015 for the winners is waiting for all participators.

For the 2014 Award, we have already received more than 70 papers from 10 countries and have agreed to extend the entry deadline to the 31st December 2014.

Please take the opportunity to send your publications to us. The lucky winners will be sponsored by Zwick to visit Zurich to receive their awards and present their papers to an international audience.

Click on the following link for an impression of the 2013 Award presentation and seminar which was hosted by Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid.

With teachXpert we made materials testing mobile. A trolley with a 2,5kN Zwicki will give teachers and lectures the opportunity to make an easy live demonstration of a tensile or bending test in the classroom.

Mobile Zwicki with videoXtens

The trolley comes with all necessary tools as well as with different samples for an easy operation. Everything is inbuilt and nicely arranged.

You just push the prepared test into the lecture hall, connect the power and projector to teachXpert and you are ready to demonstrate a test.

The integrated videoXtens is not only measuring the strain with highest accuracy it also displays a live stream of the test to the screen. The students can see any detail while the lecture can explain the process.

With these state of the art technology materials testing will become a vivid part of any lecture in materials science or engineering.

Highly skilled worker are the key success for the German industry. This is the main approach of the vocational school of Lindau.

In the department of packaging technology it was a common effort of the County of Lindau, the Bavarian organization of paper, board and plastics and Zwick to get a state of the art testing machine into the schools lab.

With this new machine the students of the school are learning the latest testing technology. They get an in depth understanding of the mechanical properties of paper and board and they are well prepared for their future challenges in the coming career.

The ILK at the Dresden Lightweight Structure Campus has established a new testing facility to test textile-reinforced composites with a modern CT scanner.

The aim was to have an inside view in the material under load conditions. Conventional test settings are testing the material after loading. In this case many cracks can be closed again after the unloading.

With the new technology it will be able to identify characteristic damage phenomena on the micro scale in the moment of initiation.

250kN single spindle testing machine with a 2.000Nm Torsion drive before shipment

On the 9th of April we had organized our 5th Academia Day in conjunction with the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid.

We had 7 outstanding presentations from international lecturers all dealing with the mechanical testing of lightweight materials. This was an excellent insight about some of the most important research fields. Weight reduction to make airplanes and vehicles more efficient with less carbon dioxide emission is one of the challenges for mankind.

In this context we saw applications using carbon composites as well as magnesium alloys just to name a few and their challenges to define the mechanical properties of the materials itself on a coupon level all the way to full scale tests.

But the highlight of the day was the rewarding of the 2013 winners of the Zwick Science Award.

With 119 submissions it has proved to be a difficult but enjoyable task, assessing the entries in order to draw up a shortlist and get the winners nominated. Our international panel of judges finally came to the following conclusion with a split 3rd place:

1. Debrupa Lahiri, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Roorkee, India“Carbon Nanotubes: How Strong Is Their Bond with the Substrate?”

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Zwick Science Award 2013.
The jury made the decision and we informed the winners already.

As we had a draw situation on the 3rd place we decided to reward both of them with 1.000€ and invite them to come to our Academia Day in Madrid.

The winners are from the following universities:

1.) IIT Rourkee, India
2.) University of Oxford, United Kingdom
3.) Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, USA
3.) University of Freiburg, Germany

We all are looking forward to our Academia Day on the 9th April. All of you are invited to attend this event where we not only congratulate the winners but also listen to their scientific presentations.